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#10 🐛 Relatability, analysis, metamorphosis 🦋

Eric Carle, celebrated author and illustrator of astonishingly well known books for children, passed away this year – but he lived to see his most beloved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, hit the 50-year anniversary of its 1969 release. According to Penguin Random House, a copy sells every 30 seconds. There’

Richard Allardice Jul 20, 2021

#9 👂 Gather around the watercooler 🧶

All ears Work. It’s where you hear some pretty good stories – but also, in my experience, where good stories are made. When I was a teacher, I started to think of work as essentially a form of theatre: you put on your costume, you get onto the stage, you

Richard Allardice Jul 13, 2021

#8 🍮 Gelatinous masses + fruit from the outer limits ☄️

There are still some surprises left A while back I wrote about novelty, somewhat worried about the collective cynicism of humanity, that perhaps we feel there are no true surprises left. But the scientists aren’t about to run out of work: there are still unanswered questions, everywhere. Today’s

Richard Allardice Jul 6, 2021

#7 🏚️ You can get a lot done living in a shoebox 💾

When you’re working on something good Some people assume that to be creative you need all the space, a clear schedule, and no constraints whatsoever. Only then, when everything is completely serene and there are no clouds in the sky, can the creating begin. But that’s not strictly

Richard Allardice Jun 29, 2021

#6: ⚛️ Neutrinos, cows and the frazzle 👻

Whelmed We often hear of people being overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but you can actually also just be whelmed. The Oxford dictionary defines it likes this: whelm — engulf, submerge, or bury: a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm — [no object] well up or flow: the brook whelmed up from its source

Richard Allardice Jun 22, 2021

#5 🏠 Spiders, scissors and sibling rivalry 🕷️

How to be a person It’s the people you grow up with – parents, caregivers, siblings – who get to witness most closely, for better or worse, your development into a person in the world. Perhaps for you that was a relatively harmonious evolution and everyone just got along. Or maybe

Richard Allardice Jun 15, 2021

#4 🐕 Dog parks, newness and super-advanced aliens 👾

I don’t own any vinyl records, but recently I was wondering about grooves – specifically, how often the stylus of a record player wears down into the record, carving a valley, damaging the sound, making it unlikely the stylus would ever escape. It turns out this isn’t how it

Richard Allardice Jun 8, 2021

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